Jim Martin

Beautiful.

@amandatuke.bsky.social great news - bravo.

Hand-pounded Beef Balls

Insert joke here.

Sequence showing boat-billed flycatcher eating a Nashville warbler

Text describing the encounter. The warbler was high on the endorphins of courtship.

@tetzoo.bsky.social from this month's Cotinga. I felt you should be informed.

Honestly: I'd rather the money was spent on something else. White Stork will recolonise under its own steam soon enough.

Cover image used without permission. Nice touch.

Breaking: Bye to Boundless. Following Unbound into the abyss.

Well he is.

A wild, slightly terrifying look at the markets. Literally everything is down, across the board, except government bonds and gold. The entire global economy foundering for a second time at the whim of one orange twat.

OMG I can't access my DMs without 'age verification'. Which I emphatically am not prepared to do.

I'm sure everyone else has already encountered this but ... wtf?

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos The woman, aged about 50, was buried in a Siberian ice cave and discovered millenia later.

This is two Tigers (presumably Caspian/Amur) and a Leopard. No?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How did that chaos pan out?

Fuck the Mail.

Are men being 'pushed out of publishing'? Industry insiders discuss Commentators are debating whether "men are being pushed out of publishing" amid discussion of groupthink, editorial turnover and the gender split of book-prize recipients.

#QTWTAIN www.thebookseller.com/news/are-men...

Yes. Amazing how the cultural landscape changed in 20 years. I've got some 1980s ones in the loft ... 😬

Friends who've published with Hopkins, check out the below if you weren't already aware:

Made me appreciate the genuine brilliance of the modern, inclusive, joke-packed Beano all the more.

Made the mistake of reading a 1994 edition of The Dandy with my son. Packed with gender stereotypes, fat-shaming, disability-shaming, bullying and punches in the face. And no jokes. No wonder we all turned out to be psychopaths.

Will be spending most of today hulking up in tribute. #hogan

Agreed. Pre-Wikipedia, how were we ever supposed to find this stuff out?

Out of Space by The Prodigy is my son's current favourite. Today we learned that three of the key protagonists on this song are named Keith. #fact

Etymology of the day: spiders were once known as ‘attercops’, or ‘poison-heads’, because it was believed most spiders were venomous. The ‘cop’ element became the ‘cob’ in ‘cobweb’.

😬

50:50 it's a Kemp. I actually got the autograph of the drummer (name escapes me) at an indoor cricket match in 1989.

I thought I might like to go to the Chelsea Flower Show next year. Ticket prices though - insane. £140 a day! I expect it'll still be sold out.

This is thrilling. I'm going to guess Hadley.

Not for long, I suspect ...

More on this: I assume you've all seen that Wetransfer is now awarding itself via revised t&cs the right to use everything uploaded to it for AI training. EVERYTHING. With respect, go fuck yourself. Your business is finished.

And lo it came to pass.

Why it is important to always be kind.